| HD-50537-08 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants | CUNY Research Foundation, NYC College of Technology | Looking for Whitman: the Poetry of Place in the Life and Work of Walt Whitman | 9/1/2008 - 12/31/2009 | $24,912.00 | Matthew | K. | Gold | | | | CUNY Research Foundation, NYC College of Technology | Brooklyn | NY | 11201-1909 | USA | 2008 | American Literature | Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants | Digital Humanities | 24912 | 0 | 24042.31 | 0 | Development of a series of courses at four partner institutions that would engage students in online investigations of Walt Whitman's work in geographical context
This Level 1 Digital Humanities project, " Looking for Whitman: The Poetry of Place in the Life and Work of Walt Whitman," will engage faculty and students at four academic institutions--New York City College of Technology; New York University; University of Mary Washington; and Rutgers University, Camden--in a concurrent, connected, semester-long inquiry into the relationship of Whitman's poetry to local geography and history. Each class will explore the interrelationship between a specific locale and a particular phase of the poet's work. Utilizing open-source tools to connect classrooms, the interdisciplinary project will create a collaborative, online space in which students can participate in a dynamic, social, web based learning environment. In its conception and articulation, this project reflects the central themes of Whitman's work: democracy, diversity, and connectedness. |